RECOMMENDED
BOOKS AND FILMS
by Writer/Director Vitaly Sumin
As an option, we have here in most cases provided the links to Amazon. You can of course also visit your local library, video store and more, to get to know us better. However, if you use our buying option (we'll get... 4% of each sale) you will at the same time help us to continue to make our special movies |
Chapter 1 - Personal Preferences
"But...What's hidden behind the Masks/Words?!."
"From Womb To Tomb"
(short film)- Voice Over
  
(Three pictures:
selected shots - "From Womb To Tomb")
"To
read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to
read at all"
"The
Western Canon" by Harold Bloom
I'm taking the liberty of citing a passage from
Lisa Pinckard's interview with me: "...One pays for the discoveries of the laws of the Universe with his/her body and soul. These discoveries lie beyond the principle of "Good" and "Bad" (or should we say "God" and "Devil"?..) and has nothing to do with morality. Are most of the geniuses of the classical literature the sorcerers putting the needles into wax figures of their enemies (and --to a lesser degree--even friends)?..
I may be lucky - I've
read so many good books... Is there any book I fell in love
with while reading and still keep warm feeling about? As of
this writing (July 2nd, 2006), several authors come to mind:
Chapter 2: Our Forthcoming "Dostoevsky-LA Project" DOSTOEVSKY'S BOOKS
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| The Idiot
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Crime and
Punishment |
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| on which the stories of our two next films "Idiot, LA",
a contemporary international thriller, and "Crime
and Punishment, LA" , transported to LA during the
riots of 1993, are based (Please check
New Projects). |
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Since any artist during her/his lifetime creates only One Great Work (a book, a painting, a film) where all the pieces of her/his works are the "Chapters,” you can buy
other books by Dostoevsky and suggest to us a story for another film as a part of our "Dostoevsky-LA Project"
Chapter 3: Friendly Spirit
If you want to better understand/analyze the message of love in
"Shades of Day”, we would like to suggest the following films (partial list):
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by Ingmar Bergman |
by Lars von Trier with Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgård. |
with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman |
by Marcel Carné |
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"White Nights"("Le Notti Blanche") |
by Kar Wai Wong |
by Charles Chaplin.
"One of the all-time greats"
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by Lucino Visconti with Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Shell – (prix of the Venice Film Festival, 1957). This is the closest adaptation of Dostoevsky's story set in the Italian port city of Livorno in the midst of the 20th Century
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"Open Hearts" |
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by Francois Truffaut with Jeanne Moreau ("probably, the best film by Truffaut")
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by Roman Polanski with Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway-(I love LA!..)
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by Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen |
by David Lynch |
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